All of these tropes are, in a nutshell, "Usually, X-eyed characters act like Y." If it's common enough to be documented, it should. And even if it was coincidence that the character's personality "went with" their eye color, why wouldn't it count?

This is true. Sometimes eye colour is just eyecolour. Sometimes it's just to match their hair. Sometimes they just need to be coloured something. I would have the main eye colour pages be disabig with no examples.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

I think we should have an index of tropes, and a parallel tropes when eyes are chosen for aesthetic reasons. The index would be stuff like Green-Eyed Redhead or Blue Eyed Blonde (eyes chosen to match on the color wheel or something) as opposed to Curtains Match The Windows (eyes and hair are the same color).

I think moving things there when we split up the other pages will help a lot. Shall we pick one to start with? We can sandbox it and softsplit the examples there before taking the split tropes to YKTTW to finish fleshing out.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Sorry for the double post, but I'd really like it if someone can look at my sorting on the Sandbox.Blue Eyes page. I'm currently just sorting out the easy ones, but I'm going to need help with some of these. There seem to be a large number of just "So and so has blue eyes."

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

On Blue eyes maybe we should make a separate section for "Blue eyes = European or American stereotype" (Sometimes combined with Blonde hair but not 100% of the time) so stupidly common in anime its not even funny.

As well as making an "other section" for Drawn and Literary works I mean there is a reason why they are blue eyes and not some other color in one of those works.

No, I'm not done sorting. Blue Eyes = European/American will have to be YKTTW separately as it's not currently something listed in the examples I have to sort. I could really use some help sorting things though.

There's not going to be an other section. We are narrowing this down to Tropes ONLY. If there is only one example of something, it's not a trope. It gets cut. These are all going to be Hard Split and there's going to be no Blue Eyes page to have an Other section on.

edited 1st Aug '11 9:22:24 PM by shimaspawn

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

It would be a part of that yeah (we really should divide that up by stereotype and connect the Japanese see British and American as blonde and blue eyed ) however just blue eyes examples exist although rare and usually Not Too Foreign.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

-Philip K. Dick

Alternative Titles: Eyes Of Gold
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Vote up names you like, vote down names you don't. Whether or not the title will actually be changed is determined with a different kind of crowner (the Single Proposition crowner). This one just collects and ranks alternative titles.

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